Ex-WWE Champion Reveals Key Advice From Triple H

Triple H helped a former WWE Champion to the top.

Since signing with the company, Damian Priest has become one of WWE’s biggest success stories.

When he put pen to paper with the company in October 2018, he was seen by many as little more than a journeyman. After all, he made his debut back in 2005 and by his own admission had often struggled for motivation, often getting in his own way.

Add that to a string of failed tryouts and a less-than-glittering championship résumé, and it’s easy to see why his subsequent WWE came as a surprise.

Priest quickly won the North American Championship in NXT before joining the main roster and capturing the United States Championship. He went on to win tag team gold before claiming the Money In The Bank briefcase, and finally the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 40.

Triple H Told Damian Priest To Stop Pretending

Damian Priest has been open about his wrestling struggles, but thankfully, he received some important advice from both Triple H and The Undertaker, which kept him moving in the right direction.

In a new interview with WFAN, Priest revealed the advice from Triple H that helped change his mindset.

“It was what I thought they wanted me to be. I remember my boss, Triple H, came up to me one day. He was like, ‘The day you stop trying to pretend to be you and you’re just you, you’re gonna make a lot of money in this business.’ He goes, ‘Undertaker told me the same advice.

I know it’s weird, right? Because how’s somebody telling you how to be yourself, that you’re not being yourself? You know you, but one day, it’ll click.’ Sure enough, one day, it just did,” he said. “I remember I was in a match in NXT with Finn Balor, and that was the first time that I felt that it clicked. Then, I got called up to the main roster.

Somehow, I ended up going down that road again of trying to be what everybody wanted me to be. Same thing again. Triple H just being like, ‘You’re like, tense. You’re holding back. Just let loose. Who cares?’ He goes, ‘I’d rather tell when you get back to the curtain. ‘Hey, relax, don’t do that, or you’re going too far.’ Then tell you, ‘Hey, man, I need more from you.’

The moment he said that, it was another one of those things of, ‘Okay.’ Obviously, it helps when you have your friends around you. Being in the Judgment Day helped my confidence a lot. Just having them in the ring with me, whether I was talking or just in a match, I just fed off of them, and then it was just this calm and smoothness that I just started to feel, and that was a game changer.”

After finally getting the better of Drew McIntyre, Damian Priest has moved into a rivlary with Aleister Black on SmackDown.

H/t to Fightful